🔬 Your tax dollars once paid a physicist whose own colleagues told him he was wasting the university's money. In 1951, Charles Townes sat on a D.C. park bench and worked out, on the back of an envelope, how to force molecules to release coherent radiation. 🧵 1/5

Interesting resource for those starting with #Drosophila research (set of videos by Bruno Lemaitre) youtu.be/aUewlFU-6rw?...

+15k signatures now in just over one day. Britons now favour rejoining the EU with a strong majority (+21). At 100k, it became "considered for debate in parliament." This is worth sharing. Tell parliament in clear terms what they're debating, and for who.

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

Why do males and females differ in infection outcomes? In our study just published in #GENETICS @genetics-gsa.bsky.social using #Drosophila melanogaster, we show that #sexdifferences in nutritional #immunity - specifically iron sequestration—shape resistance to #infection by Providencia.

While BioNtech & Moderna become household names because of their Covid vaccines, those emerged from different projects: finding ways to treat the most challenging cancers. They hypothesized that we could vaccinate patients against their own tumors, & evidence is mounting that they were right! 1/n 🧪

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's sweeping order lifted restrictions at more than 75 federal lands, including beloved national parks and seashores.

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

I am. ery happy to join the JEDI meeting in Portugal for the first time as #newPI. Come join us!

In this (very niche) post, I explain how I FOIA'd NIH to demonstrate that NCBI staff did not alter the metadata of a coronavirus sequence dataset. Come the emails, stay for the pangolins? (also works the other way round (-:) #covidorigin

This is definitely something that should be discussed before implementation. Read and provide feedback. What we need is more funding, not more restrictions. A particularly bad move for Starting, and specially, Consolidator stage.

Did you know that many organisms delete parts of their genome during development? To know more please join us at the Roscoff meeting on "Mechanistic and Evolutionary Basis of Programmed DNA Elimination" Sep21- 25, 2026. Please share!
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Tsang et al. used four species of Drosophila to investigate how climate affects gene expression in different sexes of insects, showing that protein-coding genes and microRNAs have undergone different selection between sexes. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... #genome #evolution #drosophila

The #circadian clock & cellular #metabolism: @drummonk.bsky.social & @joanna-chiu.bsky.social explore a @plosbiology.org study showing how #glucose #metabolism changes during the day in #Drosophila and how it is disrupted in clock & sleep mutants 🧪 Paper: plos.io/3Olm1M1 Primer: plos.io/4sUov2g

Morning friends. There are still those amongst us that need to wake up.

Can a single brain cell decide whether to eat or not? 🧠🪰 Turns out... yes. And we found it in the fruit fly. A pair of neurons called SELKs (subesophageal leucokinin neurons) can drive feeding behavior in both directions. They promote it or suppress it. Here's how: 🧵

Un nouveau site pour les 30 ans et un appel ; "Transformer les médias, une urgence démocratique !" Bravo et merci à @acrimed.bsky.social

New paper out: Artificial selection for increased reproductive effort accelerates actuarial senescence and reduces lifespan in a precocial bird url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article... @uniexecec.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social @joelpick.bsky.social y.social @oscarvedder.bsky.social

Very nice read explaining why if your variables that you want to correlate are measured with error, a simple correlation underestimates the true relationship, and you need to use methods that account for that error, rather than simply correlating summary statistics like line means.

Beyond delighted to share our amazing collaboration with Thierry Alquier's lab @alquierthierry.bsky.social on a conserved role for neuronal lipid droplets in regulating energy homeostasis in vivo led by Celena Cherian, Romane Manceau, Danie Majeur, and Colin Miller www.nature.com/articles/s42... /1

If you know about @peercommunityin.bsky.social, the future of scientific publishing, you should take this short survey. If you don’t know about it, you absolute should read about it, and take the survey. form.typeform.com/to/CO4KpWgi

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux "We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

A mother Pilot Whale carries the body of her dead baby. When a mother loses her baby, she carries it in her mouth for weeks, until it decomposes. This mourning process is known as requiem. [📹 Felipe Ravina Olivares] Original post

There's a strange myth about science: that theory comes first, and that data cannot show anything new. But anyone who's ever done science knows the truth that there's a long conversation between data & hypotheses. Back & forth.. until the discovery. And if you think about it, it has to be this way!

Buckle up 'So let’s finally talk about peptides. And I don’t mean peptides as chemists and biologists understand them (short chains of amino acids) I mean “Peptides!”, the hot new wonder drugs that you can order by mail. Oh man.' www.science.org/content/blog...

Posição para Professor Auxiliar OU em História e Filosofia da Ciência OU em Genética 🧬 na FCUL a aceitar candidaturas até 12 de Maio. Mais informação aqui: arquivo.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/concursos?id...

Posição para Professor Auxiliar OU em História e Filosofia da Ciência OU em Biologia Evolutiva na FCUL a aceitar candidaturas até 12 de Maio. Mais informação aqui: arquivo.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/concursos?id...

Agreed, although it should not take crises to remember that there are people behind papers/grants.

Many talk about #obesity as if it is something we can fully control, but this ignores our underlying biology. 🧪 Two papers came out this week highlighting this point: First, genetics impact GLP1 receptor agonist efficacy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders? In our new paper in @science.org , we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #EvoDevo

What!? They close the US forest services?

Comment donc? Plus de salaire permet d'avoir plus de pouvoir d'achat? Quelle surprise...

Time to publish responsibly. Check DAFNEE to help you to do so. academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...

So cool! Parasite-manipulated host behaviour is one of my favourite natural history topics — but a spider mimicking it? That’s two of my favourite worlds colliding!! phys.org/news/2026-04...

Excellent move by Cancer Research UK to cease funding Gold OA if it's just going to contribute to hybrid journal growth. Green OA exists in numerous forms for free. When funders throw their weight around, researchers will follow their lead. Well done @cancerresearchuk.org !

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Nice review by Talia Akoh-Arrey and John Brooks. But it also made me appreciate the Current Opinions format with these 'highlighted' papers. Through them, my attention was drawn to: www.nature.com/articles/s41... ^^ and this is a really cool study! 1/4

I LOVE antlion! 🤩

Can we predict health, Or when flies drop like fall leaves? Yes, chemotypes can! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #Drosophila #AgingResearch #sciku @thescikuproject.bsky.social

Creasey, Petrov & Tauber analyze the evolution of 11 core clock proteins across 65 Drosophila species, finding that the circadian clock network does not impose strong constraints on the evolution of its components. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag061 #genome #evolution #drosophila

DNA barcoding question: does anyone know of a facility that's lower cost than the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding ?

A view of the night sky from Mars. (Yes, really)

Raven, in ballpoint pen and Microns -3365 🎨🐡🪶 #art

New paper out! 🎉 How do beneficial bacteria tune their cell surface to impact host physiology? We explored this question in Lactiplantibacillus plantarum. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨Today 4pm CET🚨 PCI Webinar: The Drain of Scientific Publishing: why publishing is becoming a burden for science and how to fix it An overview talk based on three papers on #ScientificPublishing, where it stands & how to fix it. Plus dad jokes and bad acronyms. peercommunityin.org/pci-webinar-...

Clever. These are popping up all across the USA.

The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology are now published in the Peer Community Journal! 🔗 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

1 min de silence pour un nazi vs. 4 ans de silence pour une victime...

We are preparing the largest flotilla to Gaza in history. In a coordinated act of civil resistance, a global alliance will sail to break Israel’s illegal siege. This is more than a flotilla - it is a global uprising of conscience. Together we will #BreakTheSiege ! freedomflotilla.org/2026/03/18/j...

Aging may feel gradual… but what if it’s not? In our recent paper, we tracked fish continuously from puberty until death. This gave us a unique view of how aging unfolds across the adult lifespan. 🧵